From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Nov 28 14:27:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4002814BD0 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 14:27:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA22903; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 23:26:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from w@localhost) by paula.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA01243; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:30:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from w) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:30:18 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sorting order in mail list searches Message-ID: <19991128223018.B1209@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 02:21:02AM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1999-11-13 02:21:02 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > I'm not sure which the right list is for this, but: > > It seems that when you do a search on the mailing list archives, > specifying for instance "limit results to 25" and "sort by date", > it doesn't pick the most recent 25: it picks the best-scoring 25 > and sorts those by date. True. > What it should ideally do is of course a matter of opinion but I > think this behaviour is a bit confusing. (I discovered it when > it appeared that geocrawler was giving more hits than this > engine.) I believe that the most natural thing -- what people > would take it to mean -- is that it should sort all matches > according to your criterion (score/date/etc) and then pick the > top 25 (or whatever). Alternatively, you could describe better > on the page what it actually does: it is possible that its > present way of working is more useful. Do you have an idea for a better description? -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message